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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Re: Icons only mode for tasks plasmoid
From:       Jamboarder <jamboarder () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2009-01-16 19:20:56
Message-ID: 291783.58438.qm () web37305 ! mail ! mud ! yahoo ! com
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> From: Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
> 
> "Do we really want a task bar that behaves exactly like the current task bar, 
> except that it has no text?"

I remember starting to hack on this a few months ago and one thing that came up for me:
- If the user selects Icon Only then there would perhaps need to be an UI interlock for \
tooltips (i.e. select Icon Only -> Tooltips always visible).  That would provide the user \
access to the text they would otherwise get, though it requires additional mouse hover action.  \
There's at least precedent for extra hover action in other task UI's.  I won't argue though, \
whether those are good or bad precedents. :-)

> 
> - or -
> 
> "Do we want a task bar that actually has the semantics of a dock?"
> 
> if the latter, we ought to create a sperate widget.

For full dock semantics, yeah it would make better sense to create a seperate widget.  Dock \
semantics, at least for OS X and Windows 7, include conflation of launcher and running \
applications in addition to icon-only task recognition (among other things I'm sure).  Perhaps \
there are portions of Dock semantics that are valuable on their own or as part of the existing \
tasks widget. In this case perhaps icon-only task recognition, properly implemented, could be \
useful as well.

Hope this helps,
Andrew (Jamboarder) Lake
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